The Peeping Tom
The Peeping Tom
| 21 March 1997 (USA)
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Roy Chen Chih-Lai is a sick rapist/serial killer with a leg fetish, and cuts off his victims' legs as trophies after he's through with them. One day at a bank robbery shootout, he catches police woman Cheng Hsuen on camera, and chooses her to be his next victim. He begins to stalk her and enter her personal life, even waiting for her inside her home. He notices her sister, Kelly, as well (who is also a cop), and her boyfriend, Ken. After he kidnaps and rapes Kelly, Cheng decides to lure the madman by using herself as bait, and bring justice to the situation.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Beanbioca

As Good As It Gets

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Chirphymium

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Geraldine

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Dave from Ottawa

This may be the high (or low) water point of the whole Category III sex- and-sleaze genre that had its hey-day in the late 90s. The visuals are dazzling. Bright, often garish lighting illuminates every prop and surface in the film like something from a Hollywood musical, while the camera lingers caressingly on the short-skirted limbs of its gorgeous female cast. Creative camera angles and tight editing energize the action and brilliantly staged tableaux lend everything a truly operatic grandeur. All of this cinematic flair is in the service of one of the darkest and sleaziest plots ever to come off the Asian continent: an amateur film buff and camera freak stalks women with great legs (and WOW are there ever a lot of them on display in this film), subdues his victims and then adds their wonderful gams to his personal collection by... *mild spoiler*...CUTTING THEM OFF WITH A POWER SAW! The film's villain teases the victim (and the audience) with this possibility, but when it comes the shock is so visceral it is nauseating. Honestly, if a viewer can make it through the movie's first ten minutes without barfing, he is in for a roller coaster / hellride as the protagonist's crime escalate into almost unimaginable evil. Not only is movie not for the faint of heart, the strong of stomach may want to fortify themselves beforehand.

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Viva_Chiba

This is another Hong Kong movie that it got the infamous CAT III certificate, obviously the CAT III rating was given because of the rape scenes and the graphic violence and bloody images.This was directed by Ivan Lai (director of Daughter of Darkness), the movie features some good sound design and camera work.Obvisiouly, you want to see a CAT III flick for the sleaze and violence, well we have sleaze and lots of it, which it's most focused on the rape scenes, the rape scenes are not trying to be disturbing or disgusting, but arousing (that kind of stuff that will shock the censors).Unfortunately, the movie doesn't go far with the gore, we just see the bloody aftermaths.Unlike many other serial killer CAT III movies, the killer of this movie is a metro sexual, with a leg fetish.

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EVOL666

To be honest, I really wasn't expecting much going in to THE PEEPING TOM. I have to say I was quite pleasantly surprised. This one has a bit of everything: violence, rape, gun fights, car chases, and all other sorts of Cat III goodness. The story centers around a serial killer who collects his prey's legs as trophies (after he rapes them, of course...). A female police detective and her cop boyfriend are on the sick-o's trail, and the killer starts obsessing over the female detective - and it all goes downhill from there...There are a lot of great elements to THE PEEPING TOM. Strong sleazy rape and nudity (not to mention a protracted shower masturbation scene that's pretty hot...), some pretty strong violence (though not nearly as graphic as some of the classic Cat III nasties), excellent acting and camera-work, and some really interesting plot twists. THE PEEPING TOM is also obviously devoid of the silly humor elements that are evident in even most of the strongest titles from this genre. The only comic relief at all is from a smart-ass reporter who has a combined total of about 2 minutes of "on-camera" time. If you dig HK action/horror/drama/sleaze then I think you'll really get into this one. An excellent, straight-faced serial killer entry ... 8.5 out of 10

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dvdHistorian

This film is about a serial rapist/killer with a leg fetish. In one of the rape scenes, he takes his unconscious victim in his van and parks it in a busy Hong Kong street. He then goes on to undress the victim, fondles her breasts and legs, savouring the beauty of her naked body. The rape itself is done in a very exploitative manner. The rape victim, played by an absolutely gorgeous Japanese actress, is meant to be unconcious. While she is being raped, she is shown in full-frontal nudity and moans quietly. The rapist is also a very handsome man. This leaves no doubt that the director intended to maximise the titilation effect of the rape scene.Obviously, this is not a very politically correct film. It makes rape look glamourous and sexy. Do these sort of films encourage rape fantasy or even rape ?

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